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Saturday, January 31, 2009 3:46 PM

Follow multiple Web sites and blogs using RSS

Most Web sites hip to the online world have and promote RSS feeds. Here's how to use those to your advantage as a reporter or editor.Via Wikipedia:RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:55 AM

Formulating a back up plan for your job

When I got my first newspaper job out of college it was well-known that it's not a good career for making big bucks. I had several friends filtered out of journalism just based on the low-paying positions.Today, people working as journalists have to be
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Monday, January 26, 2009 7:08 PM

How to grow your online audience

Here is my four-step approach for finding, writing for and growing your online audience. Please add your thoughts below. These are just my personal ideas and best generic advice for reporters:1. Find out what people want. See what content is most viewed,
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Monday, December 29, 2008 4:02 PM

Immediate, online journalism is changing the game of corrections

Doug Fisher writes on Common Sense Journalism that the definition and correction of mistakes for media has all changed.His idea:"Changes have to be transparent. Learn to use the "strikethrough" code in HTML to show most changes (for legal reasons, libelous
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:45 PM

Detroit Free Press cuts down on print, moves forward on the web

I hope other young journalists are reading all about the changes announced this week for the Detroit Free Press. It is just another new idea and movement in mass media and I am excited to see how it will turn out.Here's a link to the explanation on the
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Monday, December 15, 2008 4:58 PM

Young journalists' role in the future of journalism

I just left the following as a comment on a Pat Thornton blog post about if enough talented young journalists will be left to lead the future of journalism:I'm a young journalist and I'm excited about the future of my organization. I'd stay here until
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:53 PM

Reading: Gen Yer blogs frustration about old-school j-school

Just read this blog post over at MediaShift.I'm not trying to change the focus of this blog over to students. I just think it's something older journalists don't realize: not all young journalists know about the web.In fact, I think that older journalists
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Monday, August 11, 2008 7:18 AM

Benefits in listening to young people

I'm currently serving on a committee at my organization where they listen to my ideas and ask for my advice on some topics. It's really been thrilling and I suggest that other media companies wise up and take to listening and involving their younger staff....Or
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Monday, June 23, 2008 8:06 AM

Social networking as a journalist

Hey everyone. Now, I'm going to guess here, but I'm pretty sure everyone who reads this blog is on at least one social networking site.I'm not exacty average, but I'm on plenty. Those include: Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Twitter, ColourLovers, LastFm,
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:32 PM

Are citizen journalists serving a "watchblog" function?

Surely many of you have heard of Mayhill Fowler's exploits, but if you haven't, check out Howard Kurtz's wrapup of the whole affair:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/09/AR2008060900373.htmlNow that you're back, I was wondering
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Friday, June 06, 2008 3:56 PM

Just making democratic conversation...

Like everyone who has been following the election season, I wanted to know where in the world Obama and Clinton were. So I was watching CNN, and Candy Crowley was parked in front of Clinton's Washington home, assuming it was the meeting place. Of course,
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:07 AM

Angry phone calls

Journalists get lots of calls from the public. What do you do about angry calls? Do you let readers vent their frustrations on you? Do you try to solve their problems?
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:06 AM

Revisiting Excel

Excel is an excellent tool for journalists. Here's how I've started using it to catalogue sources and keep a log of sources used for particular stories.
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Friday, October 19, 2007 5:37 PM

One big adventure

A while ago I blogged about changing careers, and how difficult it is to do even when one has only been in a job for a year or two. Well, I can attest to change being possible, and though it is difficult to do, we are able. And I think our youth gives
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Friday, September 28, 2007 7:35 PM

"Side by side we for freedom will fight"

Are you in a union?When I started work here a couple years ago, I was invited to join the media union. I was all for it, being a fan of Utah Phillips music, and was surprised at the number of people who advised against joining.I didn't see anything wrong
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